And chair, eddie junior. A conversation on the u. S. Military readiness and the Global Threats we face. Defense Program Senior research fellow, served two decades in the marine corps. Assessing u. S. Military strength, a pretty major undertaking. How does the Heritage Foundation try to do that . Guest we gather all publicly available information we can come across, official testimony from the pentagon, acquisition reports on major programs, general news reporting from the defense reporting community, our own personal contacts in the services and the pentagon and on capitol hill, and we gather all that all year long, go through a several month analysis and writing process, compare last years information to this years information, and then basically issue a report card on the military, and this year on a scale of one to five, we would give it a three, or in the words we use, we call it marginal, and we feel that the u. S. Military writ large is marginally able to meet the demands of u. S
Despite coming from a poor family loves to become president. Challenges a. Credible story. Starts december 10th on t. W. Food. A big moment for a small biotech firm in germany and the world vaccine developed by buying tech now approved by the u. K. Marks a technological breakthrough and could be revolution for the entire Pharmaceuticals Industry well talk to our financial correspondent. Also on the show distributing that vaccine will be a big challenge well look at how germanys flag carrier is gearing up to fly around the world. And the vaccine cant come soon enough for the worlds poorest countries theyve been hit especially hard by the global slowdown. Welcome to the show im Stephen Beard and. Lead investors around the world welcomed the u. K. s approval of a Coronavirus Vaccine with asian markets gaining thursday on hopes that economic recovery would be around the corner but the vaccine developed by german firm biotech in partnership with u. S. Drug giant pfizer also represents a tec
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